If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.